Florida Board of Medicine

These six new forms for minors and adults go over possible risks of treatment.

Many transgender adults are grappling with the state's new health landscape after state boards issued new rules for care at the end of June.

The rules are related to providing transgender treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone-replacement therapy to children and adults, carrying out part of a new law championed by Gov. DeSantis.

Physicians will be able to renew orders for puberty blockers and hormone therapy children and adults as long as no changes are made to the prescriptions. The Board of Medicine previously approved the rule.

Families of the plaintiffs and their advocates are celebrating after a federal judge allowed three adolescents to access care while a lawsuit is underway.

While the preliminary injunction applies to only three of the children in the lawsuit, the judge indicated the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional. The state, however, says the law remains in effect except for those in the case.

Transgender patients say their doctors have been holding off on prescribing treatments as they wait for new consent forms. Medical boards are proposing to allow them to continue for now.

The Joint Rules and Legislative Committee of the medical boards will meet Thursday in Tampa.

Josie felt like Florida lawmakers were threatening her health care and ability to live authentically at school. So she left. Many families of trans youth are plotting their exits as well.

The families of four children in St. Johns, Alachua, Duval and Orange counties say the rules implemented by the state's medical boards singles out minors and blocks them from obtaining medically necessary care.